Category: Liquid Sunshine

Rocky Mountain High

It started out as a quiet night drinking some new fashioned Old Fashioneds in Aspen’s J-Bar … Check out on the road in October and we’ll tell you all about it.

Scots wha hae…

These pipers know how to live right. Dropped into the Piping Centre in Glasgow for a weed dram and some gnarly pibroch.

Are they tuning up …

Are they just tuning up, or is there a song in there trying to escape? A noisy wee lunchtime dram by the Piping Centre in Glasgow enjoying Piping Live. (And just to be clear, that was just tuning up.)

Recognise this?

When was the last time you saw one of these on a bar? They used to be all the rage. The water faucet on the bar at the Pot Still, Glasgow, Scotland.

When the party’s over …

When the party’s over and it’s time to go.Downing the last glass of Sazerac Rye in Milroy’s, Soho. London’s first whisky bar, and still going strong 45 years later.

Taps aff – Finsbay, Milngavie, Scotland

‘Rainy days and Mondays always get me down’ sang the Carpenters, but I never fancied that, so I resolved long ago to make sure I met them head on and hands free. This can lead to some peculiar decisions, so this particular rainy Monday I wasn’t surprised when I found myself confronting the voluminous orange […]

Brewdog in the house

The Brewdog Boilermaker Series of whiskies?Resurrecting the hauf’n’hauf with a Brewdog chaser??Now THAT sounds like a match made in heaven. I’ve been blown away over the years by the success the Brewdog guys have had with their craft beers from a remote base in the far north east of Scotland.These days you accept amazing stuff […]

Keeping up with the Joneses

While doing some work with Public, mentoring GovTech start-ups for the GovStart programme – a great initiative from Daniel and Alex with a great team behind them – I discovered the joys of the Jones Family Kitchen in Victoria. (Though I’m sure they’d say the wonderfully renovated Eccleston yards are really part of Belgravia.) Here […]

Cutty Sark

Whisky of the week – Cutty Sark. A large Cutty Sark  by the Cutty Sark on a sunny summer’s evening at the Trafalgar Tavern, an inn that has stood guard by the old Naval College in Greenwich, London for 180 years. What could be finer? Cutty Sark is a range of blended Scotch Whisky from […]

In good company…

August’s malt of the month – The Glenlivet Founders Reserve – photographed in good company at the Pot Still in Glasgow.

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